[107] Ferré, the friend of Raoul Bigault, and his colleague in the
Commission of General Safety, like the latter, had inhabited the
prisons for a considerable time for his political writings, seditious
proposals, plots against the state, etc. He is a small man about five
feet high, and very active. He signed with avidity the suppression of
nearly all the journals of Paris, and the sentence of death of a great
number of unfortunate prisoners, with the approbation of Raoul
Bigault. He willingly undertook to announce to the Archbishop of Paris
that his last hour had arrived. The following order, drawn up by him,
was found on the body of an insurgent:—“Set fire to the Ministry of
Finance immediately, and return here.
4 Prairial, An 79.
(Signed) TH. FERRÉ.”
See Appendix, No.10.]